On Tuesday 10th January, Donald Ervin Knuth, the American computing pioneer and author of the classic The Art of Computer Programming, celebrates his 74th birthday. Four years ago, Knuth set aside a couple of days to record, in great depth, the story of his life and work for posterity. You can watch the recording here.

I enjoyed watching the first few segments, will finish the others later. It is interesting that English had a big influence on him early on; my favorite CS teaching assistant as an undergrad also studied English in grad school.